Top 69 Quotes About Combustion
#1. Jimmy Finn was not burned in the calaboose, but died a natural death in a tan vat, of a combination of delirium tremens and spontaneous combustion. When I say natural death, I mean it was a natural death for Jimmy Finn.
Mark Twain
#2. If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of the blue-state lefties could imagine. First, that madman Bush wins, and now this news. How depressing.
Brock Yates
#3. The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
Dana Brunetti
#4. Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare.
Peter Brook
#5. Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.
Don Tapscott
#6. When you mix with the wrong energy, there's bound to be an explosion. Pay attention and switch lanes when the signal changes. What's really real, is ultimately revealed.
T.F. Hodge
#7. I hung a picture of him above my bed and learned by hand the internal workings of the female combustion engine.
Shannon Celebi
#8. He leaves less than a foot of space between us and I'm 10 inches away from spontaneous combustion.
Tahereh Mafi
#9. The battlefields of World War I established the importance of petroleum as an element of national power when the internal combustion machine overtook the horse and the coal-powered locomotive.
Daniel Yergin
#10. Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy, which experiment has shown to exist in quantities millions of times greater than is liberated by combustion.
Arthur Compton
#11. I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.
Miranda Richardson
#12. Faerie: where it's only a little weird to realize that my boyfriend is older than the internal combustion engine.
Seanan McGuire
#13. If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state of combustication.
Julius Sumner Miller
#14. It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion.
William Crookes
#15. The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.
Michael A. Stackpole
#16. Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.
Cyril Connolly
#17. It ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.
Al Gore
#18. And she ran out of the diesel combustion and right to me and we held each other and we were not empty at all.
"Holling," she said. "I was so afraid I wouldn't fine you."
"I was standing right here, Heather." I said. "I'll always be standing right here.
Gary D. Schmidt
#19. So many of man's inventions - the syringe, the sword, the pen, the gun - were metaphorical cocks, but the internal combustion engine had to have been dreamt up by a man who had looked upon the human heart.
Joe Hill
#20. The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.
Michael Leunig
#21. The most likely victim of spontaneous human combustion is a solitary woman, 75 percent of all known cases of SHC are women. I tell her that some people believe that arsonist poltergeists are to blame, that the spirits of firestarters roam the cities setting souls on fire.
Kevin Wilson
#22. Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
Bob Brown
#23. If he was in danger of anything at all, it was spontaneous submissive combustion due to his master's teasing.
Kim Dare
#24. Wiping grime from his hands, Nick contemplated one of the world's great mysteries: why man had ever combined computers and the internal combustion engine.
Robin Kaye
#25. The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.
Glenn Gould
#26. It's pretty boring, working by yourself. The scene happens in between the two of you, and then you don't know what it's going to be because it's a kind of combustion. So, you do take something from every actor you work with.
Julianne Moore
#27. Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold H. Glasow
#28. I'm still going to move them out of my wanigan, but I'll give you odds two-to-one that after they move out there's going to be spontaneous combustion.
Tom Kizzia
#29. We do a lot of science on the space station. Over the course of the year, there'll be 400 to 500 different investigations in all different kinds of disciplines. Some are related to improving life on earth in material science, physics, combustion science, earth sciences, medicine.
Scott Kelly
#30. The process of history is combustion.
Novalis
#31. They'd made the bricks from the local earth, processed through some of the mining equipment and fired in a kiln powered by combustion. It could only have been more primitive if they'd dug a cave and painted bison on the walls.
James S.A. Corey
#32. A Zendo is not a peaceful haven
but a furnace room for the combustion
of our egotistical delusions.
Eido Shimano Roshi
#33. I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.
Gaylord Nelson
#34. I believe fuel cells will finally end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine ... Fuel cells could be the predominant automotive power source in 25 years.
Bill Ford
#35. Today, if nothing else, at least I can incinerate these humans with fire from their internal combustion engines and appease your spirit with their screams.
Reki Kawahara
#36. Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is
a sort of spontaneous combustion
the oily rags of the head and heart.
Stanley Elkin
#37. The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed.
Nick Hornby
#38. Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration.
Gregory Benford
#39. I'm not dead yet. It's all good. (Omari)
Good. That whole spontaneous combustion thing can be a real buzzkill. Ruins your clothes, too. (Nero)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#40. Him the Almighty Power
Hurled headlong naming from the ethereal sky,
With hideous ruin and combustion, down
To bottomless perdition ; there to dwell
In adamantine chains and penal fire,
Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
John Milton
#41. They'd found it worked on Nico better than nectar, helping to cleanse the fatigue and darkness from his system with less danger of spontaneous combustion.
Rick Riordan
#42. A combustion engine of ambition and disappointment.
Tina Fey
#43. Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts of spontaneous combustion.
Janet Evanovich
#44. What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard its fuel in order to see and walk?
Loren Eiseley
#45. Creativity is the mother of all energies, nurturer of your most alive self. It charges up every part of you. When you're plugged in, a spontaneous combustion occurs that 'artists' don't have a monopoly on.
Judith Orloff
#46. We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.
Vance Havner
#47. Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.
Tom Althouse
#48. (Rome) is a Metropolitan Museum of Art the size of Manhattan, no roof, no display cases, and half a million combustion engines rumbling in the hallways.
Anthony Doerr
#49. [We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?
Mark Steyn
#50. Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#51. Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.
Rachel Weisz
#52. Ben [Peeler] and I have known each other for a decade. He trusts my crazy ideas and spontaneous combustion and he gets the players I want and knows the kind of personality players I like. He has taste that I trust and that to me is more important than any technical things.
Shelby Lynne
#53. Within a decade, the internal combustion engine automobile is likely to look exactly like what it is - a machine that converts gasoline into much more heat than forward motion, a bizarre antiquity.
Stephen Petranek
#54. What is chemistry in a relationship, Really? Chemistry can be spontaneous combustion that excites, incites, often harms. But not understood. Chemistry can also be that which is studied, intentional, and knows how to be repeated and improved upon. Do you have the right chemistry?
Lucille Anderson
#56. I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#57. The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
#58. This mystery of use without consumption, of warmth without combustion, seems like magic, but was merely an ingenious application of the art now happily lost but carried to great perfection by your ancestors, of shifting the burden of one's support on the shoulders of others.
Edward Bellamy
#59. We have a tremendous investment in facilities for (internal combustion engines, transmissions, and axles) and I can't see throwing them away just because the electric car doesn't emit fumes.
Henry Ford II
#60. The internal combustion engine, one of the greatest technological advancements in history, has an unfortunate downside, namely air pollution so thick that, very soon, sixty-four packs of crayons will include the color Sky Brown
Cuthbert Soup
#61. Concentrate on the question. Oooh, interesting. I haven't seen that stone in that position before. Have you had a history of spontaneous combustion in your family?"
His eyes widened in surprise.
I grinned."Just kidding.
Katie MacAlister
#62. Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.
Dick Morris
#63. Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
John Dewey
#64. The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.
Winston Churchill
#65. What the hell do you want from me?" "Spontaneous combustion.
Poppet
#66. [R]epetition is as an essential element of language learning as a knife is to a lathe or fuel is to an internal combustion engine.
Kato Lomb
#67. I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.
Kate Braverman
#68. I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament ... I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.
Dorothy Parker
#69. Spontaneous combustion IS a form of harm, Mr. D, Chiron put in.
Rick Riordan
